NorthShoreWx

Waiting for the "radar is verifying north of the models" posts. Always a crowd pleaser.

I've been out xc skiing 3 days this week chasing daylight. It kinda sucks here with the crust, but it's better than not skiing. Temp is 11⁰ here now, but we still have the wind.

Ditto. 19.6 here. 20 with an asterisk

9⁰ low. I could hear the wind gusting all night. Tonight's temperatures should be interesting... Unless there's too many high clouds from storm Luca.

Should have waited to clear the snow. It's a lot easier to crack the ice off of powder snow than off the pavement.

Storm Luca?

February 25, 1999 Here's a start: https://www.northshorewx.com/19990225SnowTotals.html Also: https://www.northshorewx.com/lisnowfallpatterns.html

We picked up a little over 4.5" here. Montauk got 13" and cape cod got destroyed. A couple of weeks later we had a 10" snowfall.

Thank God I don't do that anymore It actually may have fit the definition of a blizzard or come close; it seems the winds may have qualified for 3+ hours but we need to evaluate the visibilities. Snow implies 1/2 mile visibility or less and heavy snow implies 1/4 mile or less. There's probably a way to check the visibilities, although might have to shift over to LGA for that. Pitty the young weenie didn't log 8 am.

I don't think so, except maybe 2/6/1978. Or maybe they just got lucky. I was a school kid. Friday they said we were gonna have a humdinger on Monday. Monday into Tuesday we did. I remember taking a portable radio to an indoor track meet on Saturday so I could get updates. This shit is a life-long affliction (fortunately). Like you joked above, it seems like every storm since has approached with unrelenting drama. Having umpteen models to look at contributes. Maybe it was easier when there was basically the LFM and not much else and it happened to be right that time.

These were more or less normal winter temperatures 40 or 50 years ago. Most winters had sub zero temps at some point (not NYC). That probably controlled pests better. The averages for January since I've been observing here are roughly 23/37. That's about where we are right now, although it will come down a wee bit the next couple of days. The lowest has been +9. Other than the annual kill-off of my Rosemary sub-bush, that's not enough to kill much. -5 or -10 might make a difference, but might not ..the pests evolve/acclimate too as they move north.

Ok. But be careful. Don't make me bump again. We're watching...always watching.

Bump

Per the Department of Commerce's new overseers: Why should we spend money on website improvements or an app when people can just get their weather forecasts from FaceBook or Twitter. Allegedly

I've never heard it called that but this is probably the event. These are hand transcribed central park observations neatly written by a very young weenie. The plus sign was said weenie's convention for separating sustained winds from gusts. Check out that pressure and the temperature drop! That was a flash freeze for the ages during the morning rush hour.

Here's a cynical take: So if anywhere on the island gets accumulating snow they can say they called it. They probably have forecasted little or nothing nearby so that if that happens, they can say they called it. Don't know if that is true, but false verification has become a national pastime.

We haven't had a calm night here during the last week so it's been a little warmer. LI Sound is doing its thing. Lowest it has been here is 9 on the 21st.

Low here 11.5⁰

Not sure what is official, but I round to the even number.

2015: https://www.americanwx.com/bb/topic/62470-january-2026-obs-and-discussion/page/84/#comment-7969408

If we wind up with a period of strong northeast or east-northeast winds here, that will make a mess in terms of coastal flooding, but it will also introduce the possibility of some sound effect snow. Didn't check dT or wind direction, but it seems reasonable. Kinda rare, unlikely, but I'm grasping at straws here. Might work for the NJ coast. That one ephemeral depiction of a 950s benchmark blizzard with a 1040s high over the Midwest would have been something to tell our grandkids about. Maybe I'll tell them about the great model run of '26.

2/2/1976

I had to think too much to figure out that he was using 15:1 ratios at all of those locations. If this thing hits LI, it'll be around 10:1.

I think there was one in January 1948 with 4 or 5 inches during a great stretch of winter.